Staff Software Engineer - Code Context at Deliveroo

Join us in our mission to transform the way people shop and eat, where impact, innovation and growth drive everything we do. Our Engineering teams tackle complex technical challenges across a global, three-sided marketplace, building and scaling systems that serve millions of customers, riders and partners every day. From real-time logistics to resilient infrastructure and marketplace optimisation, we design, build and operate technology that powers Deliveroo’s growth at scale. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Code Context to join our London team. In this role, you’ll help us build the systems and standards that define what “good” looks like across our global codebase, empowering thousands of engineers to ship with velocity and confidence. Get to know our Engineering [Upgrade to PRO to see link] team — what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING You’ll be joining the Code Context team, part of the Foundations group within Platform Engineering. We empower 5,000+ engineers across DoorDash and its subsidiaries to ship faster without sacrificing quality by providing consistent checks and agentic development tools. Here’s what your day-to-day might look like: - Architecting Quality Systems: Deliver consistent, trusted, and reproducible test coverage reporting for Go services, replacing legacy tooling and integrating cleanly into CI/CD and pull request workflows. - Defining Automated Gates: Design and implement explicit, enforceable, and scalable quality gates across thousands of repositories to ensure high standards by default. - Reducing Technical Debt: Build systems to identify unused code, weakly exercised paths, and uninstrumented logic to reduce structural complexity and improve system health. - Powering AI-Assisted Development: Encode gating rules and quality expectations into agentic development workflows, ensuring AI-generated code meets the same rigorous standards as human-written code. - Driving Engineering Excellence: Use data to track improvements in coverage trust and first-time quality gate passes, influencing engineering standards across a distributed, global organisation. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO THRIVE Our ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in some of these areas and curiosity to grow in others: - Significant experience in Go: Strong software engineering fundamentals with a proven track record of building and operating production systems in Go or similar modern languages. Any experience with TypeScript, Kotlin, and Python is also beneficial. - Platform Engineering mindset: Demonstrated ownership of large-scale codebases or shared developer platforms used by many distributed teams. - Expertise in CI/CD & Quality Controls: Proven experience designing automated quality controls such as static analysis, linting, policy enforcement, or code scanning. - Strategic Thinking on Maintainability: Deep understanding of technical debt and how structural complexity impacts long-term system health and developer velocity. - Forward-looking Technical Vision: Familiarity with state-of-the-art agentic AI development workflows and the ability to translate ambiguous quality concerns into reproducible technical controls. WHY JOIN US? At Deliveroo, you’ll do work that matters—solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that’s constantly evolving. We’re food lovers, problem solvers, community builders and more, brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here you can expect to: 🔧 Solve meaningful problems at real scale Work on a complex, always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day. 🌱 See your impact, fast Ship, test and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment. 🧠 Grow through challenge and ownership Take on big, ambiguous problems and accelerate your career with strong support. 🌎 A culture built for builders High standards, collaboration, flexible working and continuous learning. 💰 Share in the success you help create Competitive salary and equity options, so you’re rewarded for the impact you make. ➡️ Want a deeper look at how we build? Check out our Tech Blog [Upgrade to PRO to see link] We aim to create a fair process that lets your skills shine—our interview typically includes 3-4 stages. Explore our Engineering Interview Guide here [Upgrade to PRO to see link] to help you feel confident at each stage. OUR GLOBAL STRUCTURE Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on your role, you may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together, we’re unlocking new possibilities as one global team. DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION At Deliveroo, we know that a great workplace reflects the world around us and that true diversity and inclusion make us stronger, more creative, and better at what we do. We’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, or belief. If you have a disability or long-term health condition and need support to apply for one of our roles, or require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, you’ll have the opportunity to let us know once you’ve submitted your application.